DON'T HURRY THE CHICKEN

DON'T HURRY THE CHICKEN Around the Year with Emmet Fox October 14 A city child was spending his vacation on a farm. They showed him a hen sitting on a nest of eggs, and told him that someday a little chicken would come out of each egg. The child was delighted at this dramatic idea, and every morning he went around expecting to see the miracle. Days passed, and nothing happened. The eggs still looked exactly the same. Not the slightest change occurred in the appearance of things, and gradually his faith waned. At last one day he told himself bitterly that he had been deceived. Next day, however, from habit he went around to the nest as usual, but without any hope; and behold, what was his joy to see a flock of little chickens running about. Of course, wonderful changes had been taking place all the time, behind the shells, but there was nothing to show for it until the very last moment. Some of our greatest demonstrations come to us like this. In this story it was the spectator who lost faith, and so, it did not matter. If the mother hen had lost her faith— well, there would have been no chickens. Give your demonstrations time to hatch. “And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not” Galatians 6:9